I was 'lucky' enough to live in Winterpeg in 1979. It was in Feb too. The school let us all out with our pinhole cameras and black plastic glasses to watch. Not as dark as I thought it would be, but eerie when it reached totality. The moon just had to move a smidge from totality and it got dramatically brighter. Apparently doesn't take a lot of the sun's power to light things up.
Up here in BC this year didn't notice a thing this year, but was smoky from all our fires anyway.
1979, Manitoba Legislature
